Dublin City Council aims to combat red light running with automated cameras, following a successful trial in 2015. The city council's head of traffic, Brendan O'Brien, calls red light violations a 'scourge' and hopes the cameras will deter dangerous driving.
Red light cameras will capture registration numbers of drivers putting pedestrians and other cars at risk. Cars failing to stop at red lights have become a 'scourge' in the city, says the Dublin City Council head of traffic. The automatic enforcement cameras take pictures of registrations of drivers who fail to stop at a red light, an increasingly prevalent traffic violation which has become a “scourge” in the city, according to the council’s head of traffic, Brendan O’Brien.
The cameras were introduced for a six-month trial in 2015 on traffic lights at the junction of Blackhall Place and thein Dublin’s north inner city, following a number of crashes where vehicles failing to stop at the red light was the main contributory factor. The trial was hugely successful with the number of drivers breaking the light falling by half in the second three months of the trial, and no successful court appeals against fines. However, the trial was discontinued and never repeated. Transport Infrastructure Ireland (TII) was earlier this year tasked with developing a strategy for the introduction of both red light and bus lane cameras. The strategy had been due for completion in 2024, but a spokesman for the State agency said it had been slightly delayed and would be submitted to the department in the first three months of 2025.and the Garda, intended to erect some traffic light cameras in advance of the introduction of a national strategy. “We are keen to get going on this because red light running is becoming quite a scourge around the city and it really needs to be tackled. At the moment people feel there is no consequence for that behaviou
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